[ILUG-BOM] [Hardware] How much is too much?

[Dinesh Joshi]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:48 AM, jtd <jtd at mtnl.net.in> wrote:
> A "proper" router costs 30K ++++. And does less than a linux box with
> a few extra packages. DNS is just one of the problems. Running a

Oh really? A Linux box on a x86 / x86_64 cannot handle the several
bazillion packets per second that hit a CISCO router. None of the
motherboards actually have the amount of bandwidth that REAL routers
have.


> caching dns will solve the intermittent zero access problems. It
> still wont help the speed problem without a block list for the doze
> boxes.

agreed.

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Regards,
Dinesh A. Joshi